What did you do to get your boss fired?

Management was giving an injured worker a whole bunch of crap, not wanting to pay him,

accusing him of gold-bricking.

The worker said, tell you what, do the right thing here or you'll be sorry.

Management said, take your best shot.

The worker called the EPA and the APCD and told them where to find the logs that showed

discrepancies in toxic material storage and usage.

The sheriff's deputies showed up and raided the offices.

Field supervisors from 10 years ago that had retired got subpoenaed.

It was epic.

It cost the company massively in fines and remediation, all because they wanted to mess

with one poor employee. Not my story, but my mother's. I watched on the sidelines as a teenager.

My mother's job was basically a professional fundraiser. I don't really know what else to call it.

People came to her to help raise money for non-profits or other foundations that needed it.

This was a long time ago before social workers were more of a mandatory thing at high schools.

My high school was very poor and didn't have one.

So my mother took it upon herself to set up a fundraiser to pay the salary of a social worker

so my high school could have one.

After raising all the money, she went to talk to the principal who flat out refused to take any of it

and said the position just wasn't necessary.

My mother was pretty upset and just decided that she had donate the money to supplies or something like that.

I honestly have no idea what she did with it,

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